The last process server who tried to serve the doctor came home in an ambulance. so when the senior partner ordered Neal to serve the papers, Neal wasn't overjoyed. But the senior partner gave him an ultimatum: He must serve the papers and have the doctor in court by three o'clock or lose his job. The doctor has been called to the hospital to perform an important operation. Neal follows and manages to get into the hospital after incurring the wrath of a particularly huge and grouchy cop. Between outwitting the cop and the hospital orderlies, Neal is almost in despair as the hands of the clock near the hour of three. Then he is seized with an idea. He takes the place of the man on whom the doctor is to operate, but before he can hand the doctor the summons, the nurse slips him the ether. Luckily he comes out of it before the doctor has a chance to cut into him, but he finds that the doctor is about to leave the hospital-and he has only five minutes to get him to the court room. He secures a nurse's uniform and tries to sneak up on the doctor with the summons in his hand. But the cops again prevent him from serving the papers. Other attempts fail with disheartening regularity and Neal is about to give up. Just then Neal has another inspiration. Seizing a can of ether and an atomizer, he sneaks up behind the doctor and gives him a spray of the drug. The doctor passes out but before Neal can hustle him out of the hospital the cop again interferes. The doctor regains consciousness just in time for Neal to again spray him with ether. and only by keeping him under the influence of ether does he get him to court in time to save his job.
—Press Sheet from Library of Congress